Censorship In Music

Censorship in music is a topic that has brought about much controversy in the past two decades. There have been many different arguments on the topic, however the question still remains as if it should be censored or it should not be censored. Before you can form an opinion on this, you must hear both … Read more

Mozart’s unfinished Requiem

A short time before the death of Mozart, a stranger of remarkable appearance, and dressed in deep mourning, called at his house, and requested him to prepare a Requiem, in his best style, for the funeral of a distinguished person. The sensitive imagination of the composer immediately seized upon the circumstance as an omen of … Read more

Lyrics Music Essay

In our society today, some musicians and their music drain and plague the moral and spiritual well-being of the people; therefore, censorship offers a necessary action that we must take to keep the world from becoming a land of decadence. The musicians lives are not examples for the children or the adults. The lyrics of … Read more

Music Censorship – Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson, Britney Spears, Eminem, Garth Brooks, and the king Elvis, What do all these people have in common? Well, yes, they are all musical artists, but there is something more. Marilyn Manson is a heavy metal artist who worships Satan, Britney Spears is one of todays hottest sex simble , Eminem is a hardcore … Read more

MTV channel

Everyone remembers Michael Jackson’s red leather jacket covered with zippers and the sexy style of Madonna. MTV, or music television, nationally publicizes these images and entertainers, and others like them. The station also promotes an idealized teen lifestyle, reflecting the images of these famous artists, that contrasts with the realities of the Generation X lifestyle. … Read more

Music throughout society

We’ve been talking a lot about social rituals. Well, just what exactly is a social ritual? Social rituals are, basically, traditions or customs that a society has followed for many years. For example, in America, most people follow the custom of dating. In Israel, they tend to follow the tradition of arranged marriages. Yet, in … Read more

Kurt Cobain: At The Height Of His Career, Why?

Kurt Cobain was citied in the Seattle area with a shotgun. Days later on the fifth of April, Kurt Cobain went into the small room above his garage in his Seattle home and ended it all. Fans across the world were stunned by the news of Kurt Cobains sudden and shocking suicide. Kurt was the … Read more

History of The Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead was forced to overcome many obstacles to arrive at the point in which they are today. In San Francisco, on August 1, 1942, Jerome John Garcia was born. This marked the beginning of a long strange trip (Mokrzycki 4) Jose Garcia, Jerome’s father named his son after his favorite Broadway musical composer, … Read more

Daniel Johns Biography

Daniel Johns is a guitar player. He was born in 1979. He has blonde hair and is 16 years old. One day he heard a song on the radio with a guitar solo in it. He thought it was cool, so he wanted to get a guitar. He didn’t get one until about a year … Read more

Expository Writing James Taylor

Rock and Roll has been a tradition in America for as long as America has been a country. Classic rock and roll always has been, and still is a favorite kind of music among older Americans. When thinking of classic rock, the name James Taylor comes to mind as an artist whose work relates to … Read more

Modern Music

In an age of error the most influential thing in a child and or a teenagers life is music. Whether it be Reggae, Hip Hop, Gangster Rap, R&B, Oldies Rock, Latin, or Heavy Metal it still has a way to overpower a persons mind no matter how old they are. Right now pretty much everybody … Read more

Report on the History of Rock and Roll

The book The Art of Rock and Roll by Charles T. Brown basically proposes methods for analyzing music and anyone who reads the books should be able to develop techniques for listening to music and making legitimate statements about it. It treats rock and roll as a serious art form and traces it cultural roots … Read more

Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced?

The Jimi Hendrix Experience released its first album in early 1967. Popular music had been leaning towards psychedelics for a couple years already and Are You Experienced? came out at about the same time as the Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Are You Experienced? far exceeded the Beatles’ triumph in complexity, capturing the … Read more

Not Music to My ears

Todays current music scene has steadily become filled with pre-packaged assembly line bands and singers. This teen oriented pop phenomenon is repulsive. I see the so-called bands and singers for what they really are. They are passing trends made special, just for the teens, with all image and no real talent. For their own good, … Read more

The hip hop culture

Since the early to mid 90’s, hip-hop has undergone changes that purists would consider degenerating to its culture. At the root of these changes is what has been called “commercial hip-hop”. Commercial hip-hop has deteriorated what so many emcees in the 80’s tried to build- a culture of music, dance, creativity, and artistry that would … Read more

Record industry: Time For More On The CD

The music business is experiencing a recession where record sales are reaching all-time lows. All record companies have in the last few years experienced a considerable decrease in sales. Finding the cause or causes of this has naturally become a major concern for all of them. Some blame the recession in the West in general, … Read more

The Beatles

The Beatles were a mystical happening that many people still don’t understand. Phenomenoligists had a ball in 1964 with Beatlemania, a generally harmless form of madness which came from Britain in 1963. The sole cause of Beatlemania is a quartet of young Englishmen known as the Beatles. In the less than one year that they … Read more

History of Music

It can be argued that the vanguard of development has always been reflected in the arts of a culture. It is the poets, the dreamers and artists who are the architects of the future; the ones who build the world they want to live in, the ones who dream out loud1. Music is an elaborate … Read more

The Evolution Of Hip Hop

When you hear the phrase “Hip-Hop”, music, dancing, rapping often come to mind. Well, it’s all of that and more… Hip-Hop is a culture. According to Webster’s dictionary, culture is defined as “the concepts, habits, skills, arts, instruments, institutions, etc. of a given people in a given period; civilization. ” One artist defined Hip-Hop as … Read more

The Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced?

The Jimi Hendrix Experience released its first album in early 1967. Popular music had been leaning towards psychedelics for a couple years already and Are You Experienced? came out at about the same time as the Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Are You Experienced? far exceeded the Beatles’ triumph in complexity, capturing the … Read more

Igor Stravinsky

As a composer, Igor Stravinsky knew many conductors. Later, he wrote an essay about them. What could he write about them? What would your typical composer have to say about conductors? Surprisingly, when Stravinsky wrote about conductors he became very critical. Sarcasm and mockery permeate throughout the passage when he discusses them. Stravinsky uses a … Read more

Kurt Donald Cobain

Kurt Donald Cobain was born on February 20,1967 in the town of Aberdeen, Washington. Aberdeen is on the west coast and is about 108 miles southwest of Seattle. Aberdeen is a dreary place with about seven feet of rain a year. Kurt was born to Mrs. Wendy Cobain and to Mr. Donald Cobain. Wendy was … Read more

The Beatles

The Beatles to this day are one of the most famous and popular rock ‘n roll groups in the world. The Beatles include George Harrison, John Lennon(1940-1980), Paul McCartney, and Richard Starkey(Ringo Starr). All of the Beatles where born and raised in Liverpool, England. John Lennon was considered the leader of the band. George Harrison … Read more

Shakira, the Singer

There are many famous people around the world, and some of them are the singers. The singers are very important for the people thanks to their music. One of the persons that most people like because of her own style of music is the Latin girl Shakira. Thanks to all the things she did as … Read more

The Life And Music Of John Coltrane

John Coltrane was born in born in Hamlet, North Carolina on September 23, 1926. John Coltrane was an only child. His father, John was a tailor who played the violin and ukulele, and his mother Alice played piano and sang in the church choir. This was a great environment to foster his love of music. … Read more

History Of Rap Music

Rap music is truly an American minority artist creation of which students need to be proud. Unfortunately, rap music is not perceived by many Americans as an art form, but as a fad which they hope will soon fade away. One of my intentions with my unit is to show that rap music is not … Read more

The Rave Subculture

I walked into the dark room after paying the ten-dollar cover charge. The music was what I noticed first. It was very loud and made a ring linger in my ears. The music was house music, also known as techno or electronic music. The next thing I noticed was the people. The majority of them … Read more

Hip-Hop Nation Report

In the case of one expository text demonstrate critically how the author exploits language, tone, structure and emotion to promote a specific perspective or attitude to the reader on the subject. It’s hard to stop a Cultural Revolution that bridges people together. This is a quote from a famous ‘Rapper’ who has been behind the … Read more

Book Report: The Art of Rock and Roll

The book The Art of Rock and Roll by Charles T. Brown basically proposes methods for analyzing music and anyone who reads the books should be able to develop techniques for listening to music and making legitimate statements about it. It treats rock and roll as a serious art form and traces it cultural roots … Read more

Music Videos Debate

Music is prominent in adolescent lives: teenagers spend between 4 and 5 hours a day listening to music and watching music videos 1 and name music listening as their preferred non-school activity. 2 Therefore, it is not surprising that government officials, researchers and parents alike are concerned about the impact of music on teenagers. Disturbed … Read more

Disgraceland: Elvis Presley

The public made Elvis Presley larger than life, better known than Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon and in some cases God Himself. I cannot quite understand the Elvis craze. I dont think he was a handsome man, I dont enjoy his music, I wont waste my time trying to sit through one of his boring, talentless … Read more

The Music of Generation X

Since the beginning of time the human beings have adored the soothing sounds of music. Music has affected the way people have behaved and dressed throughout different periods of time. Different groups have been formed based upon their preference in music. Take for an example in the music of my generation, Generation X, there are … Read more